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Dr. Cornelia Graebner
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Department: European Languages and Cultures
Degree: PhD in Cultural Analysis from the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Bonn, Germany
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Latin America Research Cluster
Current Teaching
History and Culture of Spain and Spanish America: Part I Culture in Hispanic Studies
Social movements and Committed Writing in Mexico since 1968
Understanding Culture
The Writer and the Text in 20th Century Literature
Intensive Spanish Language: Reading Comprehension
Research Interests
The relationship between creativity - especially writing, and especially poetry - , political commitment, and political militancy lies at the heart of my research. This interest is expressed in my research on the function of literature, particularly poetry, in situations in which citizens are deprived of their civil rights; on the interaction between creative and civic agency in cultural production in and on cities; on the performance of poetry as an exploration of the connection between identity and agency; and on literature of the alterglobalisation movement.
Literature, Civil Rights and the Poetics of Resistance
How does the suspension of civil rights affect the performance and construction of subjectivity in cultural artifacts, particularly in literature? My research into this issue takes a comparative approach between Europe and Latin America and analyses representations of situations in which civil rights were suspended. These analyses seek responses to the question of whether cultural production can provide an alternative space, and to what extent it becomes co-opted by those forces that deprive citizens of their civil rights.
Within this research context I am currently writing an article on representations of armed movement and their repression in 1970s Mexico.
For a special issue on 'Poetics of Resistance', edited together with David Wood, see http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/issue/current
Performance Poetry / Polipoesía
In my dissertation " Off the Page and off the Stage: The Performance of Poetry and its Public Function", written at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, I develop a methodology to analyse politicallycommitted performance poetry. Through case studies in English, Spanish, German and Galician I develop the following concepts as tools for the analysis of performance poetry in its social context: commitment, the poet as author, speaking and listening, performance, address, sound, accents and translations, the city, borderlands.
Cultural Production and Globalization
Globalization has changed the premises and conditions of cultural production. Different cultures are in closer contact with each other. However, this contact is mediated through and conditioned by inequalities on the social and political level. I am interested in the ways in which neoliberalist politics have influenced the conditions of cultural production, and in which cultural producers incorporate or contest the imaginaries produced by neoliberalist globalization and by the alterglobalization movement in their work.
Urban Culture
Cities and urban spaces are intersections of urban politics, cultural production and of social and political tensions. Urban cultural producers respond to the imaginaries of a city that are developed through urban politics, but they also develop their own, often alternative, urban imaginaries. I am interested in the interaction between city government and civil society as it is manifested particularly in cultural production and urban cultural politics.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
- performance poetry
- the relationship between literature, social movements and the public sphere
- comparative literary studies
- contemporary Latin American literature
Proposals may take a comparative approach or may focus on the literature of particular countries.
Secured Funding
2011: British Academy Overseas Travel Grant
For the conference of the International Association for the Study of the Americas, Rio de Janeiro, July 2011; and presentation of a paper on 'Dissident Encounters: Imaginaries of Alterglobalisation in the works of Ramon Chao and Manu Chao'
2011: Society of Latin American Studies
Events grant for an event on 'Media, Community and Social Movements'. Please see 'Events'.
2009-2010: Rearch and Enterprise Fund, FASS, Lancaster University
Small grant from the Research and EnterpriseFundfor research on 'Changing Perceptions of the City of Oaxaca in 2006'
December 2009: IAS Incubation Fund, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University
Lead applicant for a grant from the IAS Incubation Fund for the Latin America Research Cluster, for a series of events on "Modernization, Globalisation and Alterglobalisation in Latin America"
July 2009: British Academy Conference Fund
Travel grant for participation in the International Congress of Americanists, July2009,Mexico City, Mexico
April 2007: Partial travel grant of the American Comparative Literature Association
Participation in the ACLA conference 2008, Puebla, Mexico.
1 January 2006 - 31 December 2006: Royal Netherlands Academy ofArts andSciences (KNAW)
Full-time scholarship for completion of dissertation.
1 September 2005 - 30 November 2005: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Funded research trip to the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
Most recent presentations
University of Vigo, Project 'Poetic Discourse Beyond the Lyric', I International Conference on Non-Lyric Discourse in Contemporary Poetry, Vigo, 26th April 2011
Plenary Lecture: "History and Poetry: Re-telling History Poetically and 'from below'in Alterglobalisation Literature"
Department of Literary Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2nd March 2011
Who Grants Poetic Licence? Performance Poetry between Social Citique, Political Activism, and the Market
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, 12th January 2011
La poesía en voz alta en los años 70 y 80: Tendencias y manifestaciones
Seminar Series of the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster, 16th June 2010
Imaginaries of Alterglobalisation: The Mega-City as Theme and Organizing Principle in Narratives of Alterglobalisation
Annual Congress of the American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, 1st - 4th April 2010
Resistance, Political Violence and Intercultural Encounters in The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, 19th - 24th July 2009
"Sonyar otro mundo": Intertextualidad en la escritura de Eduardo Galeano y el Subcomandante Marcos
Urban Spaces and Inequality (workshop), Lancaster University, 5th June 2009
Literary Representations of Mobility and Inequality in Urban Spaces
On Sound (workshop), Royal Holloway, London, 25th April 2009
Rhythmanalysis in Urban Performance Poetry
Poetics of Resistance: Practices, Repertoires, Strategies, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15th and 17th April 2009
"Sonar otro mundo": Sigue existiendo un discurso global de la resistencia?
La ciudad latinoamericana, Leiden University, 6th April 2009
Los ritmos de la megalopolis: La ciudad de Mexico a travesde sonidos y ritmos en la poesia contemporanea
From Human Rights to the Primacy of the Political (conference), Lancaster University, 7th-8th November 2008
Subjectivity Construction and the Deprivation of Rights in two Novels on the Mexican dirty war
The Latin American and Caribbean City (symposium), University of Liverpool, 17th-18th October 2008
Analysing Rhythms: Sounds and Rhythms in Performed Poetry from Mexico City and Spanish Harlem (invited presentation)
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Cornelia Graebner has 11 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Graebner, Cornelia (2011) 'Don’t Misunderstand Me': Apostrophe and Direct Address in Poems of Resistance. In: Prácticas de resistencia y de emancipación. Peter Lang, Bern, pp. 27-52.
Graebner, Cornelia (2011) Los ritmos de la megalópolis : poesía en voz alta de la Ciudad de México y Spanish Harlem. In: Ciudad y escritura. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta. (Submitted)
Graebner, Cornelia (2011) Performing poetry : body, rhythm and place in the poetry performance. Thamyris . Rodopi, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-9042033290
Graebner, Cornelia (2010) Four paths five destinations : constructing imaginaries of alter-globalization through literary texts. Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Specia. ISSN 1832-9101
Graebner, Cornelia (2009) Lenguaje, Resistencia y Sociedad Global Civil. Confines: Arte y Cultura desde la Patagonia, 19. pp. 4-5.
Graebner, Cornelia (2008) The Poetics of Performance Poetry. World Literature Today, 82 (1).
Grabner, Cornelia (2007) "...where there is a lot of sound...": Resistance, Subjectivity and the Trilanguaging of Media on Manu Chao's 'Clandestino' and 'Proxima Estacion...Esperanza'. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 3 (3). ISSN 1557-2935
Graebner, Cornelia (2007) Here to stay : the performance of accents in the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lemn Sissay. In: Constellations of the transnational. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9789042021198
Graebner, Cornelia (2011) Subcomandante insurgente Marcos. The Literary Encyclopaedia.
Associated Keywords: Academic cultures, Citizenship, Comparative, Cultural theory, European languages, Globalisation, Interdisciplinary, Latin American cultural studies, Latin American cultural theory, Literature, Literature and migration, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Literatures of migration and diaspora, Performance poetry, Spanish, Twentieth-century culture, Twentieth-century literature, Twentieth-century popular culture, Urban studies
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Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593006
Room: Bowland North, B57
My Projects
Non-lyric Discourse in Contemporary Poetry: Spaces, Subjects, Enunciative Hybridization, Mediality
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